Indian Deal For Ten Boeing C-17s Cleared

The Indian govt today cleared the country’s largest defence deal with the US so far. Long expected, the Cabinet Committee on Security approved a $4.1-billion deal for 10 Boeing C-17 Globemaster-III heavy transport aircraft. The deal is expected to hold options for six more aircraft.

The deal includes $1.12-billion in offsets, which reportedly includes a high-altitude engine test facility and trisonic wind tunnel facility for India’s Defence Research & Development Organisation.

Anonymous

No doubt we are being riPped off no doubt it is a good Plane but look at the price at that price Russians may give us il78 production line or even ukrainians may also give us any production plane that they have

Anonymous

It will sound odd, but I have a better idea. Why not give Pakistan 1 billion $ aid and become their friends instead of ploughing 100s of billions of $s in this white elephant called defense? Can we afford and sustain such high defense expenditure when more than 80% of our people are malnourished or almost half the population is living below poverty line? The type of absolute poverty that you witness in India does not exist even in sub saharan Africa.